1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1288r1 Submission November 2010 Sameer Vermani, QualcommSlide 1 Frame Format for GroupID Management Date: 2010-11-08 Authors:

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1288r1 Submission November 2010 Sameer Vermani, QualcommSlide 2 Abstract Downlink (DL) Multi-user (MU) MIMO is identified as a key technology to improve the overall network performance –GroupID concept is essential to specify spatial stream allocation in an efficient manner [1] Spec framework document [2] already specifies 6 bits of groupID in VHT-SIG-A This document proposes a groupID management frame which is simple, has low overhead and is fixed length

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1288r1 Submission Unicast GroupID management is needed A groupID assignment needs to be ACKed before that groupID can be used –More complicated error handling for broadcast messages We do need an approach which allows us to manage MU group membership on a per-STA basis –Most events in the network will happen independently across STAs Efficiency improvement with broadcast is not significant –The same number of frames need to be transmitted for broadcast and unicast We propose to adopt a unicast format for groupID management –Whether or not to adopt an additional broadcast format is still TBD Qualcomm Slide 3

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1288r1 Submission Qualcomm Slide 4 Unicast GroupID Assignment Frame Above frame can be transmitted at association or anytime MU group assignment of an STA needs to be updated –1 bit “membership status” specifies whether the STA is a member of the group or not –2 bit STA position specifies spatial stream position of STA in the corresponding group Fixed payload of just 24 octets –Remains same even if all groupIDs are being updated Classification as “robust” action frame is TBD SU GID field in the table is always hardcoded to –STA membership as 1 –STA position as 1 Robust or Not Robust is TBD

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1288r1 Submission Pre-Motion 1 Do you accept unicast messaging for groupID assignment ? Qualcomm Slide 5

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1288r1 Submission Pre-Motion 2 Do you accept the fixed length frame shown on slide 3 of this document (Robust or not robust is TBD) for groupID assignment (exact location of fields TBD) and agree to add the following text to the spec framework document? “Group ID Management The Group ID Management frame is used to assign or change STA positions corresponding to one or more Group IDs. The frame body in such frames shall consist of a 24 octet Group ID Assignment field, which contains 3 bits for each one of the 64 group IDs. The 3 bits for each group ID consist of the following: –1 bit “membership status” which specifies whether or not the STA is a member of the corresponding group ID –2 bit STA position which specifies spatial stream position of the STA in the corresponding group ID The classification of this action frame as “robust” is TBD. The exact location of the above fields within the frame body is also TBD.” Y- N - A- Qualcomm Slide 6

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1288r1 Submission References [1] 10/582r1, “GroupID in VHT-SIG Field” [2] 09/0992r15, “Specification Framework for TGac” November 2010 Sameer Vermani, QualcommSlide 7